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What does in principle mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word in principle? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. With regard to the fundamentals, but not to the particulars.
  2. According to theory.
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Our own answer must be a universal one, applicable in principle to all comparable cases.
We are quite happy in principle to secure the long term future of the event.
This all seemed a great idea in principle but of course the numbers don't work.
There is nothing that justifies this demand, and nothing that supports the belief that it is satisfiable even in principle.
In my judgment the authorities support this conclusion which I have reached in principle.
Such semantic-functional categories can in principle be used across different semiotic modes in a way that formal linguistic categories cannot.

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